Category: Visas Jobs & Retirement

Just about a week ago, when musing about our upcoming South African visa renewals, I was joking – JOKING! – that maybe the Department of Home Affairs would make us go through the whole circus of police clearances and medical certificates again. But of course I was very secure in my assumption ...

I think the gods of bureaucracy must have sensed that Joburg Expat’s material of “what-a-hassle-stories” is starting to dry up, what with Eskom so unceremoniously leaving the stage (once again, I can highly recommend calling in your own meter readings around the 12th of the month ...

No, I’m not a spy, but when our family goes travelling, we tote a large stack of passports with us. I’m always nervous that something will get lost in the melee. I suppose having to keep on top of your passport and visa situation is a very common expat phenomenon, but all I can say, if ...